April, 2008

Blog - About

About Anna Ullrich

About the blog

My blog is devoted to art, creativity, front end web design / development, Expression Web, and whatever else is on my mind I suppose. I enjoy troubleshooting HTML and CSS markup and seeing what people are working on, so if you've got a page problem you can't figure out, email me and maybe I'll feature the problem and solution in a post. If you have any other Expression Web questions that you'd like me to address, especially CSS stuff, please send me an email. And hey, don't be judging the markup of this blog...I know it doesn't validate...but I only have so much control over the markup that this blog management tool generates, so don't be hating on my markup please. :)

About me

I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame, both in photography. My digital artwork reminds many of the work of Hieronymus Bosch and also Terry Gilliam.

I started hand-coding websites in grad school, and supported the development of department websites there. I taught HTML and web design at a few other universities, and continue to build websites on occasion as a freelancer.

I spent several years at Adobe, as a technical support engineer for Adobe GoLive, as a web producer, and also as a technical writer. I co-authored a book on Adobe After Effects and worked on a few other After Effects books before finding my way to the Microsoft Expression group. I credit this video http://origin.www.spike.com/video/2679657, starring Napoleon Dynamite (I too hate the Yeti!) and Bill Gates, with inspiring me to look up Microsoft's Careers website and discovering a great match with the new Expression Web team. You can find me and my avatar moderating at the Expression Web forum here: http://forums.expression.microsoft.com/en-US/web/threads/ .

Microsoft will be releasing a special Joy Division edition version of the Zune music player to coincide with the release of the Joy Division documentary . Joy Division - She's lost control again Joy Division - She's lost control again Joy Division - Love...

You've visited the http://www.hotornot.com/ website. You've voted. You've compared your vote to the average of all other voters. (You've wondered if the rumors are true that the founders of hotornot sold it for 20 million.)
Maybe you've also visited...

Question: What's fine art photography?
Spike Mafford 's reply:
"...art that's used as decor rather than a commercial application, like on a coffee mug or a packaging somehow."
Art is decor ... yikes, if you feel like starting a riot sometime...

When I arrived for my first interview to join the Expression Web team at Microsoft, I went past the receptionist's desk and through the glass entryway and was really surprised to be faced with a sculpture (titled "The Knight") by the folk artist Terry...

Passing along the good news that the 'click to activate' behavior has been removed from Internet Explorer:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/08/ie-automatic-component-activation-now-available.aspx
Hooray!